International channels on the 61.5?
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I thought all new installs were D500+ or 1000+ as all Int'l on 61.5 are on 118.7??
I see some EA + a D500+ dish around here in Minneapolis
I see some EA + a D500+ dish around here in Minneapolis
Could be a conspiracy by installers to unload old hardware and get to go back a year down the road and collect again for installing another arc.
Obviously if they are installing on 61.5 with another dish for 110 + 119 line of site to
118.7 is not the problem. Maybe it is lack of experience with the 500+
The internationals channels that are still @ 61.5 remain there because the level of subscribers to those channels @ 61.5 still justifies it. Adding more subscribers just makes it worse. One must also assume that they also remain MPEG-2 for the same reason, subscriber numbers still justify it but one has to wonder why they have not at least converted them to MPEG-4 like the rest of the EA. The most glaring answer has to be cheapness by dish. If dish converted int @ 61.5 to MPEG4 they could probably gain enough capacity back to restore the entire international lineup that was once contained at 61.5 for EA subscribers. International @ 61.5 has slowing been reduced and further compressed due to transponder failures there, so it has been a big gamble not to even have bothered to convert them to MPEG4 incase more TPs had been lost. A lot of what dish does never makes a lot of sense, moving international from 121 to 118 what was that for?
Obviously if they are installing on 61.5 with another dish for 110 + 119 line of site to
118.7 is not the problem. Maybe it is lack of experience with the 500+
The internationals channels that are still @ 61.5 remain there because the level of subscribers to those channels @ 61.5 still justifies it. Adding more subscribers just makes it worse. One must also assume that they also remain MPEG-2 for the same reason, subscriber numbers still justify it but one has to wonder why they have not at least converted them to MPEG-4 like the rest of the EA. The most glaring answer has to be cheapness by dish. If dish converted int @ 61.5 to MPEG4 they could probably gain enough capacity back to restore the entire international lineup that was once contained at 61.5 for EA subscribers. International @ 61.5 has slowing been reduced and further compressed due to transponder failures there, so it has been a big gamble not to even have bothered to convert them to MPEG4 incase more TPs had been lost. A lot of what dish does never makes a lot of sense, moving international from 121 to 118 what was that for?
its just a slate letting you and the installer know you're aimed at 61.5
There is one for most of the oribital slots
61.5
110
129
118.7
and when it was there 148
There is one for most of the oribital slots
61.5
110
129
118.7
and when it was there 148
The sort of "conspiracy" you suggest happens A LOT in the LA metro area that is unfortunately filled with far too many dishonest retailers. I have TONS of stories and negative personal experiences with terrible local retailers. This doesn't seem to be a big problem in most other parts of the country where nice people still live.
